How are you producing the select and option html? If you are producing these on a webserver via a scripting language, its probably best to do the grouping there. Use the Optgroup tag (which I believe is fairly well supported) to group the list of common countries together with a nice label.
Not entirely sure what question you are actually asking here? What do you mean by usability scenarios? Karl On 5/24/07, Sarah Peeke (XERT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks, Just wondering what you think about form usability scenarios for drop-downs for countries. I currently maintain a database of countries which is displayed alphabetically in a form drop-down. To save the user having to scroll, I'm considering repeating "common" countries at the top of the drop-down (as I've seen in use elsewhere), but I'm not sure how accessible that would be. Alternatively, I'm thinking of defaulting to USA - the site I'm working on has an international focus. I would prefer not to use javascript. Thanks Sarah -- XERT Communications email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mobile: 0438 017 416 <http://www.xert.com.au/> web development : digital imaging : dvd production ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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